Walmart raises minimum age requirement for buying Guns and Ammo

[Sterben]

It's about damn time major retailers has stepped up to help with the raising gun problems we have in the U.S. They should of never carried those Air-soft guns that look like realistic assault rifles in the first place. If we can get Amazon on board, we will be making a dent in the problem.





https://news.walmart.com/2018/02/28/walm...rms-policy

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Might be making a small dent.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I like what Walmart are doing, but I'd like to see my own modest programme implemented:


-Any attempt to buy an assault-style weapon precludes you from buy any firearm of any type for five years, pending a psychiatric evaluation.

-If a customer storms out of a gun shop after being informed of the three-day waiting period, police are to be alerted.

-'Concealed carry' would be permitted, but all holders of this permit would be required to wear a sandwich board proclaiming, 'I Am Armed.  This Is Because I Am Too Insecure To Leave My Home Without My Penis Extender'.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

The rotary glass had, maybe..one ar-15 in it at the store.  Now they just put another ruger autoloader where the ar-15 used to be, lol.  Cynical pr stunt.....from three years ago....that did what? They still carry the airsoft guns, btw...they just had the manufacturers add an orange tip on all the barrels that didn't already have them. They come off, ofc.

[CapnAwesome]

The biggest dent we could make would be to start on the mental health crisis in America. It would be easier politically, cheaper, more moral and might actually work.

[Sterben]

The biggest dent we could make would be to start on the mental health crisis in America. It would be easier politically, cheaper,  more moral and might actually work.

     What about raising the price of ammo? If they did that and forced the manufacturers to give 35% of their profits along side a 12% from the retail to a mental health/drug fund to benefit an overall improvement state of our country's background check and mental health system. We we will never be able to rid ourselves of the gun nuts, but at least they help with the this issue from their hobby.

[Shell B]

The biggest dent we could make would be to start on the mental health crisis in America. It would be easier politically, cheaper,  more moral and might actually work.

That is predicated on the idea that all mass shooters are mentally ill. Being violent isn't a mental illness. Hey, I'd love to see more access to mental health care in this country, but, off the top of my head, I can only think of two mass shootings where the perpetrator was definitely mentally ill and not just angry at the world.

[CapnAwesome]

The biggest dent we could make would be to start on the mental health crisis in America. It would be easier politically, cheaper,  more moral and might actually work.

     What about raising the price of ammo? If they did that and forced the manufacturers to give 35% of their profits along side a 12% from the retail to a mental health/drug fund to benefit an overall improvement state of our country's background check and mental health system. We we will never be able to rid ourselves of the gun nuts, but at least they help with the this issue from their hobby.

Yeah, I'd be in favor of that. I mean just a tax on guns and ammo that funds mental health care.

[The Grand Nudger]

Hehe, they're already funding conservation...how many things do you want to make dependent on gun and ammo sales for funding? 

[CapnAwesome]

The biggest dent we could make would be to start on the mental health crisis in America. It would be easier politically, cheaper,  more moral and might actually work.

That is predicated on the idea that all mass shooters are mentally ill. Being violent isn't a mental illness. Hey, I'd love to see more access to mental health care in this country, but, off the top of my head, I can only think of two mass shootings where the perpetrator was definitely mentally ill and not just angry at the world.

Only two? I think most of them are mentally ill. A sure sign is if you go shoot a bunch of strangers for no reason. That's a bit cheeky, but there has been research done on the link.

https://www.google.es/amp/www.latimes.co...utType=amp

At the broadest level, peer-reviewed research has shown that individuals with major mental disorders (those that substantially interfere with life activities) are more likely to commit violent acts, especially if they abuse drugs. When we focus more narrowly on mass public shootings — an extreme and, fortunately, rare form of violence — we see a relatively high rate of mental illness.


According to our research, at least 59% of the 185 public mass shootings that took place in the United States from 1900 through 2017 were carried out by people who had either been diagnosed with a mental disorder or demonstrated signs of serious mental illness prior to the attack

It wouldn't surprise me at all if a chunk of the remaining 40% had an undiagnosed mental illness either. That you only can think of two isnt a knock on you, but just shows the poor job the media does on reporting it, and how the discussion always gets swamped by the gun discussion, even though that's really and unsolvable problem because gun owners of America in the U.S. are not going to give up their guns. This is a solvable one though and one that you can get gun owners on board with.